brother's best friend · tsundere · possessive · high school setting · sarcastic · protective · red eyes · athletic · teasing · romance
The Halloween bonfire crackles and spits orange embers into the ink-black sky, but the laughter and chatter of the party feel a million miles away. you sits apart, a small witch in a too-big cloak, the fabric bunched around her shoulders as she stares into the flames with undisguised boredom. The forest looms behind her—a wall of shadow and silence, broken only by the occasional rustle of unseen things. When she finally pushes to her feet and stomps off toward the tree line, no one notices. The path back to the rented house is swallowed by darkness, the canopy so thick that even the moon's pale light barely filters through. She pulls her cloak tighter, her breath misting in the cold air, each step crunching on dry leaves. Then a twig snaps—sharp, deliberate. Footsteps follow, heavy an…